package requests; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; /** * This utility class provides an abstraction layer for sending multipart HTTP * POST requests to a web server. * @author www.codejava.net * */ public class MultipartUtility { private final String boundary; private static final String LINE_FEED = "\r\n"; private HttpURLConnection httpConn; private String charset; private OutputStream outputStream; private PrintWriter writer; /** * This constructor initializes a new HTTP POST request with content type * is set to multipart/form-data * @param requestURL * @param charset * @throws IOException */ public MultipartUtility(String requestURL, String charset) throws IOException { this.charset = charset; // creates a unique boundary based on time stamp boundary = "===" + System.currentTimeMillis() + "==="; URL url = new URL(requestURL); httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); httpConn.setUseCaches(false); httpConn.setDoOutput(true); // indicates POST method httpConn.setDoInput(true); httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary); httpConn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "CodeJava Agent"); httpConn.setRequestProperty("Test", "Bonjour"); outputStream = httpConn.getOutputStream(); writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, charset), true); } /** * Adds a form field to the request * @param name field name * @param value field value */ public void addFormField(String name, String value) { writer.append("--" + boundary).append(LINE_FEED); writer.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + name + "\"") .append(LINE_FEED); writer.append("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=" + charset).append( LINE_FEED); writer.append(LINE_FEED); writer.append(value).append(LINE_FEED); writer.flush(); } /** * Adds a upload file section to the request * @param fieldName name attribute in * @param uploadFile a File to be uploaded * @throws IOException */ public void addFilePart(String fieldName, File uploadFile) throws IOException { String fileName = uploadFile.getName(); writer.append("--" + boundary).append(LINE_FEED); writer.append( "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + fieldName + "\"; filename=\"" + fileName + "\"") .append(LINE_FEED); writer.append( "Content-Type: " + URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(fileName)) .append(LINE_FEED); writer.append("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary").append(LINE_FEED); writer.flush(); FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(uploadFile); char[] buffer = new char[1024]; String s = new String(buffer); byte[] data = s.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"); int bytesRead = -1; while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(data)) > 0) { outputStream.write(data, 0, bytesRead); } inputStream.close(); writer.flush(); } /** * Adds a header field to the request. * @param name - name of the header field * @param value - value of the header field */ public void addHeaderField(String name, String value) { writer.append(name + ": " + value).append(LINE_FEED); writer.flush(); } /** * Completes the request and receives response from the server. * @return a list of Strings as response in case the server returned * status OK, otherwise an exception is thrown. * @throws IOException */ public List finish() throws IOException { List response = new ArrayList(); writer.flush(); writer.append("--" + boundary + "--").append(LINE_FEED); writer.close(); // checks server's status code first int status = httpConn.getResponseCode(); if (status == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( httpConn.getInputStream())); String line = null; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { response.add(line); } reader.close(); httpConn.disconnect(); } else { System.out.println("Server returned non-OK status: " + status); } return response; } }